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Tags: Arab League, east-jerusalem, mahmoud-abbas, peace talks, Saeb Erekat, separation-wall
Richard, do you really think these silly "proximity talks" would accomplish anything? The peace process is a joke, and the only people taking it seriously seem to be the journalists who are still doggedly writing about it.
The peace process has been a joke from the beginning. Even the much-vaunted Oslo Accords were little more than a ploy to buy time for Israel to create enough facts on the ground before Final Status could be agreed upon.
"Saeb Erekat, said by telephone on Thursday that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, had asked Mr. Biden for help in stopping the housing project but made no threat about pulling out."(R.S. italics I presume)
Erekat made no threat or Abbas made no threat? It's not clear from the sentence. In either case this does not contradict Haaretz or later reports . Both can be correct.. Checking with Reuters and the CSM the situation was in flux all that day.